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...world's most acclaimed photojournalists, Nachtwey debated whether to travel with U.S. troops but opted in the end to work from Baghdad, where he has recorded the sights--the rubble of damaged buildings, the bomb victims in hospital wards--of a city under withering attack. The severe weather that has hampered allied troops has also hit Baghdad. "The sandstorm was the most amazing sight," says Nachtwey. "It looked like the prelude to an apocalypse...
...have to join the Air Force to fly over Iraq. As anybody who has watched CNN's Baghdad bomb-damage reports knows, it's now easy to pull up satellite images of a major military target and dive into a 3-D landscape rich in hills and valleys, all built from real-world data. Zoom in close enough, and you can see cars on the streets, the shadows of trees and the swimming pools of Saddam's palaces...
...patient at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, ended up directly infecting more than 90 people in the territory; in Vietnam, another individual was so contagious that he had passed the virus on to at least 30 health-care workers. Medical experts fear another such virus bomb could detonate somewhere in mainland China, especially since a lack of transparency has kept hospitals there in the dark about how to handle the disease. That danger is especially acute now, as many Chinese working in cities return to their home villages to celebrate the grave-sweeping holiday honoring their ancestors...
Harvard blew the game open in the third, breaking a 4-4 tie with two home runs—a leadoff solo shot by sophomore catcher Schuyler Mann and Hale’s second bomb of the weekend. The Crimson then loaded the bases again on a Salsgiver double, two walks (one intentional) and two stolen bases, but Hendricks struck out swinging and Mann grounded out to end the threat...
...spent last Saturday sitting on a hill in Kurdistan watching U.S. forces trying, unsuccessfully, to bomb the Iraqi army into oblivion. The Kurdish authorities had closed the road to the front-line village of Khazar, ostensibly for our safety but also perhaps because they had lost the village the night before. Reinforcements swept along the dusty road: we watched as noisy peshmerga, taciturn Special Forces, a top commander, the brother of the ruler of this part of Kurdistan, moved past in a convoy of Land Cruisers, waving regally. The next day we discovered that the Kurdish commander who waved courteously...